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Behaviorism In The Classroom: It Seems To Work, Milton Kornfeld

Perspectives (1969-1979)

In trying to find a better way to motivate and evaluate my students, what I did last year was, essentially, to borrow an idea which appeared in Change Magazine (April, 1973) under the title "Behaviorism in the Classroom," by Elaine G. Breslaw. Ms. Breslaw teaches history at Morgan State College in Baltimore, and her description of student behavior at this predominantly black school indicated that her students were enough like my own to warrant consideration of this approach to motivating and evaluating students. In regard to her students Ms. Breslaw's concerns were not dissimilar from my own:

"I wanted to …

Is The Lifeboat Leaking, John Hicks

Perspectives (1969-1979)

What liberalizing educational course or curriculum is good for a student? Will the student see the opportunity inherent in a course if it assumes a degree of comprehension he hasn't yet been educated to? Will it do him good if he can't or won't grasp it now?

Can colleges start all over at the existent level, give elementary training, and yet arrive at language mastery and disciplined thinking and esthetic sensitivity? Can we ask a chronologically mature matriculant to defer graduation until still later? Or are the lost quite lost?

If, then, a student is free to elect, with few …

General Education: Let's Be Specific!, C. Edwin Howard

Perspectives (1969-1979)

To many of those who have been vitally interested in the advancement of General Education over a period of years , it seems that much has been written, and more said, of the philosophy of General Education but considerably less about the specifics of its implementation. It is without question that the philosophy of general studies is essential to the planning of an educational program. Also, few would deny the necessity for the continuous promulgation of that philosophy. But for those who have accepted the general philosophy of General Education, whether long ago or recently, there is the continuing and …

General Education: A Learner's Viewpoint, Eugene Wine

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Most of the articles we read about general education are written by those who either teach or administer some kind of general education program. I think it might be valuable to know the viewpoint of someone who has been trying to educate himself generally throughout a lifetime.

The interdisciplinary courses which many schools now have seem to me to be a great improvement over the general education program which prevailed in my undergraduate days , which was the still quite prevalent one of a certain number of credit hours in the various academic divisions. My feeling is, however, that one …

The University As Asylum, Francis L. Gross Jr.

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The word "asylum" has indeed a variety of meanings. It is an ambiguous term. It has been used to denote both places of confinement for mentally unbalanced folk as well as a sanctuary affording security and protection for those in need. The purpose of this essay is to see the large state university as a sanctuary for young people. It is primarily concerned with undergraduate students as persons undergoing crises of identity. It seeks to clarify strategies and goals for professors in dealing with these students. The ambiguity of the term "asylum" suggests, however, the possibility that the large state …

General Education As An Alternative To Liberal Education, Raymond Kolcaba

Perspectives (1969-1979)

At the Eastern Campus of Cuyahoga Community College, the campus community as a whole has taken seriously the district-wide commitment to general education. Rather than spell out the nature of general education , the campus president left the concept open-ended and invited faculty to discover its meaning through their own experiments and innovative efforts. Issues shrouding the role of schools are at times distilled into two views.

Perspectives Vol. 7 No. 1

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A Clockwork Course, Harvey Overton

Perspectives (1969-1979)

We can now forget a career of anxious Mondays, or returning to the classroom after a week-end of fretting about how to get our students to grasp some concept in aesthetics or epistemology. Our course objectives are stated with precision. Learning is administered in graded doses, with students unfailingly advancing from stage to stage as they are positively reinforced for productive responses. As classroom managers (in another era we were called teachers) we assiduously avoid strategies producing aversive reactions, knowing that they are counterproductive. Instead, we engineer relevant contingencies that generate the behaviors that are visibly effective. And all the …

The Academic Meritocracy: Its Origins And Future, David Katz

Perspectives (1969-1979)

"Virtue," Emerson assures us, "is the only reward of virtue." Yet , as every academic knows , this seemingly elementary axiom has long been obsolete. Indeed , the very meaning of virtue has changed since Emerson's day, when the concept referred to a quality of being acquired through intense introspection and manifested in one's daily relations with others. As currently defined in the academy virtue is simultaneously more tangible and more prosaic. It is the status one acquires through the accumulation of certain types of credits: assignment to prestigious committees, active participation at professional meetings and, especially, a suitably impressive …

Perspectives Vol. 7 No. 2

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The Student: His Self-Satisfaction And His Sense Of Permanency, John Bevan

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Seaborg went on to say: "Let me be quite realistic as I turn to the one force which I believe can do most to help us understand ourselves in society or help us create and fulfill the highest goals which a Cybernetic Revolution might offer. I believe that force is education and that the university should play the leading role." He concluded that in the short decades ahead, there must be a huge re-evaluation of the goals and values of our society and it will be in our universities where such a re-evaluation takes place.

Studies, Programs, And Good Intentions, Gilda M. Greenberg

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The University and the Urban Crisis; Volume 2, Community Psychology Series, Edited by Howard Mitchell and Daniel Adelson; Behavioral Publications, N.Y., 216 pp., August 1974.

This small book sponsored by the Division of Community Psychology of the American Psychological Association, presents thirteen university- based personnel who consider the unique position of the university in sharing its expertise for solving the social problems of the urban community.

What The University College Advisor Needs To Know, Jean G. Kennedy

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Session 7 of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Michigan State University, October 17 through October 19, 1974.

The University College advisor at Michigan State University needs to know dozens of things. The kinds of things she has to learn can be divided, roughly, into two categories: the written and the unwritten.

Editorial Note, F. Theodore Marvin

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Editor Note for Volume 6 Issue 3

General Education Science For Citizens Of An Open Society, Don Weinshank

Perspectives (1969-1979)

How shall we teach general education science to citizens of an open society?

I want to argue that this question does not have an answer. More to the point, it does not have an answer, and any attempt to develop a general education science course for all citizens of an open society is doomed from the outset to be procrustean.

Using Small Groups In Undergraduate Teaching, Francis Gross Jr.

Perspectives (1969-1979)

An old man once told me when I was a student of philosophy at St. Louis University, "Francis, never trust a successful teacher." A very successful college professor of mathematics once told me later, "Most teachers talk too God damned much." I have puzzled over these seemingly strange comments on teaching for the past twenty years. They are the genesis of this paper.

With regard to the "successful" teacher, Herbert Kelman sheds some light on why it is possibly a very bad idea to be successful.¹ He identifies three models of social influence on opinion change--compliance, identification, and internalization. …

General Education: Image And Reality, Paul Bernstein

Perspectives (1969-1979)

What, then, are the conclusions to be drawn for the future of general education in an open society?

1) If general education is to help our students achieve greater wisdom, departments must react in a less threatened manner. However, in the current educational climate, the legitimate needs of general education programs are not likely to prevail over departmental territoriality in very many institutions.

2) General education offerings clearly need more administrative support in an era which has come to exalt professional development as the sine qua non to success. As the Levine and Weingert study implied, this should be in …

Lifelong And Global Views, John A. Hannah

Perspectives (1969-1979)

This issue of Perspectives is devoted entirely to the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Michigan State University, October 17 through October 19, 1974.

Keynote Address

General And Liberal Studies For The Career-Oriented Student, Ernest H. Blaustein, Myrtle Beinhauer, Wilton Eckley, K. D. Briner

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Session 6 of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Michigan State University, October 17 through October 19, 1974.

General and Liberal Education and Career Education: Partners

Iron Lids and Morning Stars: A Challenge for Liberal Arts

Between Scylla and Charbydis the Perils of False Dichotomy

Perspectives Vol. 6 No. 2

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Perspectives Vol. 6 No. 3

Perspectives (1969-1979)

This issue of Perspectives is devoted entirely to the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Michigan State University, October 17 through October 19, 1974.

General And Liberal Studies For The Nontraditional Student, Mildred B. Erickson, Barbara Anstine, Grace Reid

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Session 2 of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Michigan State University, October 17 through October 19, 1974.

General and Liberal Studies for the Nontraditional Student

The Challenges of Life-Long Learning

A Pilot Study the Mature Woman Employee

Conclusion of Panel Presentation

Lifelong Education And General And Liberal Studies, Mildred B. Erickson

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Annual meetings of learned groups provide individuals with an opportunity to examine their purposes and ideas and to find challenge, support and renewal among their colleagues. In the October Association for General and Liberal Studies annual meeting we are examining two concepts and their interrelationships-lifelong education and general and liberal studies. The conference itself is an experiment in lifelong, continuing, recurrent education. While neither movement is new, each is in a position for strong revival. The conscientious professor who must face nine to twelve classes each week has long recognized the need for recurrent renewal; now the need is being …

General And Liberal Studies For The Career Oriented Student, Richard C. Giardina, Carol J. Guardo

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Session 1 of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Michigan State University, October 17 through October 19, 1974.

General Education: Developing Life Skills for a World in Persistent Transformation

Notes on Liberal Studies for Career-Oriented Students

Recycling The Humanities Faculty: The Momentary Memoirs Of A Star-Trekking Pilgrim To The Ruins Of Troy, Bryan Lindsay

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Reading back over that I find myself feeling strangely in the face of fiction. Not so, though, I promise you. The quotes are paraphrased, granted, since I don't have total recall, but the style, the content, the interest and dedication are all there. This is the recycling of the Interdisciplinary Humanities faculty at Converse. It might also be considered as the reorienting of the Humanities students at Converse, if they were aware of another humanities prior to this. Most of them find the Contemporary Humanities, or Interdisciplinary Humanities, a new ball of wax, and they are to a man ( …

Perspectives Vol. 6 No. 1

Perspectives (1969-1979)

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A Continuing Litany: They Aren't Dumb, They're Different, Ken Byerly

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Beyond the Open Door: New Students in Higher Education. K. Patricia Cross. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1971. xviii plus 200 pages. LC 77-170212.

Alternatives to the Traditional: How Professors Teach and How Students Learn. Ohmer Milton. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1973. xiv plus 156 pages. LC 72-83961.

Educating For The Full Life Cycle-Including After 60, Phillip K. Numinen, Richard J. Colwell, James Lampky, Daniel R. Mclaughlin

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Session 9 of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Michigan State University, October 17 through October 19, 1974.

One Source of Financing Demonstration Projects

A Developing Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Program at St. Clair Community College

A Developing Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Program at Central Michigan University

Community College Action with Area Senior Citizens

Non-Traditional Degree Programs, Charles G. Morris, Phillip D. Adams, Don M. Flournoy, Allen M. Kepke, S. D. Lovell, Warren S. Smith

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Session 4 of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Michigan State University, October 17 through October 19, 1974.

A Program in Humanities

How About Accountability?

Non-Traditional Degrees

Community-Junior Colleges And General-Liberal Education, James L. Warner

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Session 3 of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Michigan State University, October 17 through October 19, 1974.

Man and the Environment: A Course Designed for Lifelong Learning